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Tuesday, January 31

Stacey Mallory again...

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Stacey Mallory

Sea level/Soul groove

4Real 005/006

Stacey Mallory and his label 4Real are unstoppable in the last weeks and here we have two more wonderful pieces of good music with jazzy keys, piano, flute and smooth percussion. Keep your eyes on this man, he is doing truly irresistible stuff.

Eclectic night

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Fudge

Nightglows EP

Tejal

France’s Fudge is back with this eclectic four track EP for Tejal. The title track, feat. Mani Hoffman, is based on deep keys and soulful vocals, “Call Me” is an old-school jazzy house affair, “Mechouga” is an Detroit influenced track and “Coritiba” is an tribal house tool.

Sunday, January 29

Respect - Joaquin ‘Joe’ Claussell

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A modern-day renaissance man, this New York-based producer, remixer and dj is also a prolific business man; one who approaches all his projects with sincerity and intensity, qualities he infuses into everything he touches. In his latest role as owner of Sacred Rhythm Music, he intends to guide the world to a new way of looking at and listening to music.

Born into a large musical family, and raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Joe Claussell quickly learned the positive and uplifting affect music had on his life. Having been surrounded on all sides by a diverse combination of music from rock, soul, pop, African, and Latin, Joe started to contribute his own musical inspiration at his Friday night jam sessions at the illustrious vinyl shop Dance Tracks. After later becoming part owner, Joe continued to travel the world in search of the spirituality in music as well as continuing to play international venues. In 1996, joining NY DJ’s Francois K and Danny Krivit, Joe became a part of the most influential underground party of the late 90’s, Body & Soul, contributing with his innate ability to broadcast his passion from the first to the last person on the dance floor.

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Recognizing the lack of soulful dance music in the market by his experience on Dance Tracks, Joe Claussell created Spiritual Life Music in early 1998. Utilizing the artist's strength, taping into their soul and “making music around it" has been Joe’s philosophy and apparent key to success. Music created for, by and about the soul is a long forgotten pastime of current record conglomerates. Explore this spiritual experimentation, in which the historical, physical, and spiritual elements guide us to a new level of awareness. Listen to the music; you may be surprised at how familiar this sound is, the sound of life.

Friday, January 27

Addicted to love

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DJ Pope & Lynette Smith

Addicted (b-sOuL & DJ Oji mixes)

Poji

After Kerri Chandler's massive remix, now it’s time to the original mixes of DJ Pope’s “Addicted” with the well-known soulful vocal performance by Lynette Smith. Stunning keys and bright bass over a percussion groove will definitely get you addicted.

Higher Love

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Antonio Ocasio

Higher Love

Counterpoint

Antonio Ocasio is back on Counterpoint Records, after “Fabulous” (released last year with big support from François K., David Mancuso, etc.). With vocals by Mustafa Akbar, “Higher Love” features all the delicious ingredients we can expect from Tribal Winds label head: tribalish groove, hammond keys, sax, flute, rhodes and bass, all dropped with his outstanding spiritual touch. Lovely record.

Thursday, January 26

Masters

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Glenn Underground & Leroy Burgess

Feelin Me

White

"Feelin Me" is a combination of Glenn Underground’s notable skills on programming and Leroy Burgess’ guitar work and vocals. The result is an uplifting song with deep keys, charming strings and a little funky touch.

DJ Oji and his Spiritual Journey

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DJ Oji

Spiritual Journey

Poji Rec.

The album “Spiritual Journey” by DJ Oji is now available (pre-release). Featuring an impressive list of guest artists, including jazz singer Sheila Ford, vocalists Carolyn Victorian and Lynette Smith, Dr. Bob Jones, Esteban and many others, this is a great album for our listening and dancing pleasure.

Guest Review - Franco Martinelli

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Various

Bar suSU 2

suSU

The second release of the "Bar suSU" series is going to be released very soon, and what a fantastic compilation is this. CD 1 is a 13 tracks set mixed by Notenshun and includes a superb selection of soulful cuts with a large dose of classic suSU material, includig Bobby & Steve remix of The Reese Project "This means that", James Ratcliff pres. Urban Groove ft.T. Blaize "Takin u back", John Culter's remix of Kim English's "C'est la vie" and others. In addicition of the suSU cuts there's a splah of cutting edge new recording from outside labels, including tracks from Mr A.L.I., Anderson Soares Project, 280 West, as well as some exclusive, yet to be released cuts from Notenshun. Bar suSU 2 also includes a 10 tracks bonus unmixed cd and there's also a limited 2 X 12" vinyl release. Pure quality music.

Sunday, January 22

Respect - Glenn Underground

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Glenn Underground (GU) comes from a family of musicians dating all the way back into the early 1970's, from his stepfather to his cousin and to his uncle's so his musical knowledge exceeds him. Since 1984 GU has been playing & supporting house music in Chicago and has been producing his own brand of House and electronic music since about 86-87 until now.

Taking inspiration from Chicago's original pioneers, Larry Heard, Ron Hardy, Lil' Louis, and the like, Glenn has produced some of the most well respected deep house music of the past few years. His releases for Cajual, Prescription, Guidance, Nite Life Collective and Peacefrog have set the standard for sophisticated dance music. Also, he is one of the few DJ's who can walk the line between deep jazzy house, disco influenced house, and the kind of classics featured at the legendary parties of late 70's Chicago.

Tuesday, January 17

Dreaming

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Stacey Mallory

After Hours / Dreaming

4Real 007/008

Wow, he did it again! New Jersey’s dj/producer Stacey Mallory is back with 2 new lovely tracks on his own label 4Real. As we are used to listen from him, the tracks have truly irresistble keys, strings and synths over a percussion groove, spreading a laidback vibe. Beautiful, 4Real...

Joyful Noise

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Joyful Noise

Rythm Of Your Soul

Qalo Mota

The latest release from the French label Qalomota is “Rythm Of Your Soul” by Joyful Noise. With lush instrumentation, including live flute, organ, piano, keys (by Ludovic Bors) and percussion (by Antoine Demantke), “Rythm Of Your Soul” is a funk/jazz flauvored track with a warm summery feel. Summer...

Sunday, January 15

SoulShine

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D.C. Washington

I Miss You

SoulShine

D. C. Washington returns to SoulShine in big style along with New Jersey's own Joe Flame. If you need to get down to business, go straight to the Club Mix for peak time action! For a deeper vibe both the "Soulful Mix" and "Dub" are the way to go. "I Miss You" has a great vocal performance by D.C. Washington and additional keys by Louis Benedetti.

Classic!

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Erro

Change For Me

Z Rec.

Re-issued again due to massive demand, this twelve features the classic dance floor cut from Yoruba Records by Erro called "Change For Me". This track needs no introduction, as it was a huge track a few years back. Produced by Osunlade and sung by Eric Roberson with a club friendly remix from Joey Negro making it a sure fire dance floor classic.

Saturday, January 14

Live...

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Jannae Jordan

Live

Tribal Winds

This is another masterful work from NY’s DJ/Producer Antonio Ocasio. With Jannae Jordan on vocals and Max Farber on keys, “Live” is a lovely song to stay in your mind for a long time coming. Why can't we get that song out of our head?

Friday, January 13

Are you ready to dance?

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Steal Vybe

A Night At The Big Room

Steal Vybe Music

Chris “Cee Rule” Forman and Damon “Mr. Dizzy Fingers” Bennett are back on their own label Steal Vybe Music. This time they show us powerful beats and basslines ready to rock the dancefloor. But don’t worry, their typical gorgeous synth arrangements are there...

Wednesday, January 11

Camio Rec. News

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Fuzion feat. Chris Herbert

I'm so glad (remixes)

Camio

The fourth release from Camio Recordings (label from Jonny Montana and Nick Moss) will be the remixes for the high acclaimed song “I'm so glad” by Fuzion feat. Chris Herbert. The record will be available next month and will include remixes by Jihad Muhammad, William “ReelSoul” Rodriguez and Moise “Big Moses” Laporte.

Mars is now available!

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Martino

Mars

Iwanai

Iwanai latest release, “Mars”, is a very peculiar track that seems to come from a different planet. Does anyone could resist to those spaced out keys? Different, original, refreshing, superb. This track is now available in digital format (the vinyl should be in stores next week).

Monday, January 9

Back to the good old days?

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Various

Nu Cool

Hed Kandi

Hed Kandi celebrates 2006 releasing volume 5 of the series Nu Cool, the title with which the label began its musical journey back in 1998. Very close to the well known cool Hed Kandi sound this release will definetely satisfy original Hedkandi fans. The recipe is the same as in the previous Nu Cool masterpieces, all latest nu soul, r&b and soulful deep house releases and favourite classics filtered by the unique hedkandi ear. Dont miss it!

Percussion speaks

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DJ Oji pres. Esteban

Esteban Speaks

Poji

“Esteban Speaks” is the vocal version of the previously released track on Ibadan, featuring spoken words by Esteban who is also responsible for the percussion. This song was taken from the forthcoming DJ Oji album "Spiritual Journey" featuring talented artists as Carolyn Victorian, Phire & the ICB, Sheila Ford, Lynette Smith and others.

Sunday, January 8

Respect - DJ Spinna

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Born in Brooklyn, New York, DJ Spinna has been a purveyor of quality music since the commencement of his production career. Over the past 7 years, Spinna has established himself as one of the hardest working producers in the industry with tracks and remixes for notable artists such as De La Soul, Soul Live, M. Jackson, Roy Ayers and many others.

DJ Spinna has over fifteen years of experience as a DJ, and has been collecting records since childhood. His professional career started as a college radio and party DJ at Binghamton University. Due to Spinna's skills and multi-dimensional sound, his production credibility has expanded on a world wide level and he has contributed to the success of many European based artists (4 Hero, Rae & Christian, Attica Blues and Nightmares on Wax, just to name a few). He is part of the underground duo Jigmastas whose album was released on the Beyond Real Recordings, label which he also co-owns. He also launched his own dance music label named WonderWax Music.

Friday, January 6

True Love

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Studio Apartment feat. Stephanie Cooke

One True Love

King Street

“One True Love” was one of the beautiful songs included on the album “People To People” (featuring Stephanie Cooke, Terrance Downs, Joi Cardwell, Kenny Bobien and others) and now has a proper release on King Street. As usually, the Japanese team (Masanori Morita, Noboru Abe and Satoh Shinji) delivers a timeless peace of soulful house not to be missed... pure quality. Eric Kupper gives his touch and turns it into a more funky house affair.

Born In Aruba

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Steal Vybe

Mirage EP

Large

Chris “Cee Rule” Forman and Damon “Mr. Dizzy Fingers” Bennett presents the Steal Vybe’s new EP, “Mirage”, this time on Large Music. They prove once again their eclecticism with 3 tracks: “Mirage”, “Umba Dae” and “Born In Aruba”. While the first two are into a deep techy sound, “Born In Aruba” (my favourite of the package, I must confess…) has lovely keys and irresistible melodies. Summer, where are you?

Tuesday, January 3

Unified Records news

"Prelude" by Glenn Underground and "Imagine Freedom" by Mr. A.L.I. (with remixes by DJ Spinna and Glenn Underground) are two of the amazing upcoming records from Unified. We also can expect a full-length album from Mr. A.L.I. (Transit-Chasing Life) and "Sexy One" (original + remix) by Peven Everett.